JOEL PELERIN   Joel Pelerin was born in Lyon (France) in 1949. He is a professional photographer in Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, where he lives since 1987, with his wife Alice (Alice was born in Madagascar) and their two sons, both of them earn their living being medical doctors. Previously, Joel was an engineer and professor at the Antananarivo University, Madagascar. As a photographer, he only shoots portraiture and Female Nudes. None of his models (more than one hundred) are professional, most of them are students or working in the city. 70% live in a area 2 km around : there is a great density of wonderful women in Reunion Island !... Surprisingly, Joel never plans ahead his shoots, depending of his model personality and her mood, his work varies from Classic Nude to Erotic. He first tries to enhance her self-image. He doesn’t set a pose, they work together, trying to create something, accordingly with the inspiration of both of them. His greatest satisfaction is when the model sees her pictures, and radiantly happy asks him to be his model again! Joel hopes to show the beauty of women in Reunion Island through his work, for the world to see. He featured on the cover of the December 2005 special edition of "Pictures" devoted to the masters of Nude Photography, together with Douglas Kirkland who photographed Marilyn Monroe nude. He was invited to present the Beauty of Réunionese metissage at the Durban Film Festival in South Africa, and as a curtain raiser to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May 2007. The exhibition "Une histoire des Femmes" took place 1st of December 2007 at La Possession with a performance of selected dances choreographed by Mme Yun Chane, the creator of the first contemporary dance company on Reunion island. This same exhibition travelled to Johannesburg South Africa in December 2007, and in an abridged version called "Reunion Island Women", in Calgary (Canada) in February 2009, showing the grace, the beauty, the diversity and the warmth of the women of Reunion Island. Together with his wife writing poems on his pictures, they wrote a page in “The Last Book” of Luis Camnitzer opened on October 31th  in the National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires.